Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pramana Inc. maintains 6 pending office actions distributed across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio shows significant examiner diversity, with 6 distinct examiners currently reviewing active applications. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a broad reach within the mechanical and e-commerce sectors.
SASS, KIMBERLY A. is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests that no single examiner dominates the current workload, requiring counsel to manage multiple unique examiner preferences simultaneously. The presence of 4 distinct art units implies that the portfolio covers several technical classifications. Practitioners should prepare for a decentralized prosecution environment where individual examiner tendencies will influence the overall success of the pending office actions. This variety in personnel may lead to varying prosecution outcomes even within the same technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 1 | 53.4% | +51.7% |
| NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 1 | 55.3% | +28.8% |
| HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN | 1 | 89.6% | +12.2% |
| RUSH, ERIC | 1 | 60.8% | +36.1% |
| BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 1 | 81.3% | +11.7% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924614 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COLOR GAMUT NORMALIZATION FOR PATHOLOGY SLIDES | HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN | — |
| 18647525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SLIDE MARKING TECHNIQUE FOR TARGET TISSUE EXTRACTION AND DOWNSTREAM APPLICATION | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITIZATION OF TISSUE SLIDES BASED ON ASSOCIATIONS AMONG SERIAL SECTIONS | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 7d |
| 18774574 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE SLIDE IMAGING USING A SELECTED SCANNING PROFILE | RUSH, ERIC | 12d |
| 18972909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF INTEREST DURING SLIDE DIGITIZATION | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | — |
| 18382386 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE OF A MECHANISM THAT CONVERTS ROTARY MOTION INTO LINEAR MOTION | FIX, THOMAS S | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITIZATION OF TISSUE SLIDES BASED ON ASSOCIATIONS AMONG SERIAL SECTIONS | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 7d |
| 18774574 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE SLIDE IMAGING USING A SELECTED SCANNING PROFILE | RUSH, ERIC | 12d |
| 18972909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF INTEREST DURING SLIDE DIGITIZATION | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | — |
| 18924614 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COLOR GAMUT NORMALIZATION FOR PATHOLOGY SLIDES | HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN | — |
| 18647525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SLIDE MARKING TECHNIQUE FOR TARGET TISSUE EXTRACTION AND DOWNSTREAM APPLICATION | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | — |
| 18382386 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE OF A MECHANISM THAT CONVERTS ROTARY MOTION INTO LINEAR MOTION | FIX, THOMAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3686 | 2 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2662 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF INTEREST DURING SLIDE DIGITIZATION | SASS, KIMBERLY A. | 3686 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2024 |
| 18972902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITIZATION OF TISSUE SLIDES BASED ON ASSOCIATIONS AMONG SERIAL SECTIONS | NGUYEN, HIEP VAN | 3686 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 07, 2024 |
| 18924614 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR COLOR GAMUT NORMALIZATION FOR PATHOLOGY SLIDES | HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18774574 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE SLIDE IMAGING USING A SELECTED SCANNING PROFILE | RUSH, ERIC | 2677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18647525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SLIDE MARKING TECHNIQUE FOR TARGET TISSUE EXTRACTION AND DOWNSTREAM APPLICATION | BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18382386 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE OF A MECHANISM THAT CONVERTS ROTARY MOTION INTO LINEAR MOTION | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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